The present condition of life of the
poor and the rich in the US has proven that democracy and capitalism do not work. On the other hand, capitalism and apartheid work very well.
Democracy – government by the people, direct or representative – America does not have this.
Capitalism – private wealth and profit-making, super-rich, 1%, oppression and exploitation – America has this.
Apartheid – racial segregation, white oppression and exploitation – America has this.
Whatever the founding fathers of America meant or hoped for in 1776 is not what we have in 2015.
Our schools, health care, prisons, infrastructure, institutions are private and managed by the for-profit capitalist system.
Our manufacturing jobs are sent overseas to increase profits for capitalists.
Our country is divided along racial colour lines.
White rules. All others get out or beg.
Our intellectuals are disillusioned and our universities are silent.
Our media is a propaganda machine and owned by the 1%.
Our military is not here to protect our homeland, our borders, but to conquer the world while we live in fear and beg for food and medicine.
Our most important industry is selling guns and drones to anyone in America or globally who has a $.
Our democratically elected men and women in congress, state and city are poor on election day but rich the next day.
Our rich white 1% for-profit capitalist oppressors and exploiters choose the candidates and pay for them to be elected.
If this is democracy, what is apartheid?
American soil – if it could speak – would tell tales of genocide and slavery.
The roots of genocide and slavery are prejudice, racism, hate, discrimination, exploitation, oppression, and ultimately apartheid. These are practices of people suffering from an inferiority complex.
This very white country claims to be a moral Christian nation.
What branch of Christianity these murderers and slave owners subscribe to is a mystery? Their Christian practices are certainly different from the Bible or what Jesus preached.
Perhaps the pilgrims, the European killers and the slave owners – now known as white supremacists – wrote their own bible which makes their current practices moral and legal.
Prejudice, racism, hate, discrimination, exploitation, oppression, and apartheid are so ingrained in the white American psyche that it seems an impossible task to ever make equality a reality in these states.
Why aren’t white politicians and people at all levels of government out in the streets screaming for changes in this country? Why aren’t white church leaders doing the same? 
Why does law enforcement have black and white laws? Why do they entrap innocent Muslim men?
The answer is simple. Congress and the Courts enjoy the status quo. In order to maintain the status quo prejudice, racism, hate, discrimination, exploitation, oppression, and apartheid must remain in place.
America is a white country built on genocide and slavery, and it will be a long time before white genociders and slave owners accept and tolerate black brown, yellow, red ….
If American soil could speak what a tale it would tell.
From a historical point of view, and for centuries now, the people of Africa have been persecuted, enslaved, colonialized, divided by tribe and conquered, and their lands raped and plundered of every bit of natural resources.
Who committed these crimes? The white European imperialists and colonializers!
The enslaved Africans that were kidnapped and shipped to America have been persecuted as old as America is. No American laws on paper have saved them or changed their lives.
White supremacist institutional racism and prejudice is so ingrained in our society that it is almost “normal” for white people / law enforcement to shoot black people without a second thought.
What we are seeing today- the massacre of black people by white supremacists – is nothing new. This has been going on – always.
What is new is the fact that social media has exposed this crime against black people and the citizens in American – and the globe – can no longer deny these crimes when they are recorded and posted for the world to bear witness.
And who are committing these crimes? The white supremacist immigrants from Europe who imperialized and colonialized Africa!
Now suddenly we have a new slogan: Black Lives Matter! Well, really! Since when did black lives matter? This is a meaningless phrase!
The same “white is superior” mentally that persecuted and plundered the African Continent (and persecuted the Jews and are now slaughtering Muslims) is still at work here on American soil. And it will be a long time before “Black Lives Matter” on American soil.
And you Africans on American soil, if you believe that meaningless slogan about black lives matter, then you are more gullible than I thought.
Go read Malcolm X.
Clarion Review
EDUCATION
The Other Side of Teaching
Evelyn Uddin-Khan
978-1-4990-7794-0
This is a deep, stinging indictment of the education system from a teacher’s point of view.
The Other Side of Teaching, by Evelyn Uddin-Khan, is an emotional look at the trenches of education from a veteran teacher.
Uddin-Khan has a doctorate in comparative and international education, lending her book a broad perspective and deep insight, but the heart of her understanding is intensely personal.
The book examines teaching conditions, internal and external politics, and the shifting balance of power in education. The first two parts of the book share stories from her teaching experience. The third part discusses policy 
problems specifically, but her experience is critical to her insights. The fourth part gives the author’s view of the positives of the teaching profession, such as the students themselves and friendships with other teachers.
It’s clear through her sincerity and intensity that Uddin-Khan loves teaching and students. But the depth of her love makes her hurt deeper. After years of service, being essentially demoted made her feel like a commodity to the school system—a system that she already felt didn’t give teachers their due respect. Her pain and anger are quite 
understandable, but at times they overshadow the ideas she wants to present.
Her discussion of policy and problems with the system is best suited for those who have a relatively good grasp of the education system: She begins, “It is obvious that education policy in its present form is excluding the majority of poor and middle-income children from receiving the education they deserve.” For some teachers, parents, and concerned citizens, Uddin-Khan’s ire will fuel desire for change.
But those unfamiliar with the day-to-day realities of the teaching profession will find her experience eye-opening and even shocking (such as how verbal and physical abuse from students goes unaddressed by administration and parents), prompting the question, “It can’t possibly be that bad, right?”—a question that Uddin-Khan hopes will encourage people to take a deeper look at education.
The cover and back panel copy don’t fully show how personal and emotional the book is. They set a more academic expectation that may make Uddin-Khan’s earnest and sometimes angry voice jarring. The Other Side of Teaching is an inside look at the education system through one teacher’s tell-all point of view.
Melissa Wuske
Blue Ink Review: The Other Side of Teaching
June 8, 2015
The Other Side of Teaching
Evelyn Uddin-Khan
Xlibris, 424 pages, (paperback) $23.99, 9781499077940
(Reviewed: April 2015)
Not long ago, teachers commanded respect from students, parents and society in general. 
Today, though, they are often punching bags for those same groups, blamed for America’s failing education system.
Evelyn Uddin-Khan knows that system and says the fault lies not with the classroom educators, but with those who are pointing fingers.
Uddin-Khan, who has a doctoral degree in comparative and international education, spent more than 20 years teaching in New York’s public school system. For 18 years, she writes, she was a well-respected and dedicated professional. But then her job changed; she was “excessed” — education-speak for being reassigned. No longer needed as an ESL teacher, Uddin-Khan was made a substitute teacher. Her three years in that position is the basis for The Other Side of Teaching.
For most of her book, Uddin-Khan details the chaos that she suffered through daily. Violent, disobedient and indifferent students and unresponsive and disconnected parents were just part of the problem. Worse, in her view, were school administrators and politicians, whose decisions were most often motivated by expediency or greed. She claims that administrators ordered grades inflated and problem students promoted or graduated, all in an effort to bring up schools’ test scores.
No Child Left Behind legislation, she maintains, merely moves these poorly-educated students to the next level, making them somebody else’s problem.
To her credit, Uddin-Khan does offer some specific remedies, from getting cops out of the classrooms to separating politics from education to investing money in schools.
Overall, this is a narrative that will certainly give readers a different view of education.
Also available in hardcover and ebook.
Rumor – Governor Cuomo: Pearson Bought Your Cheap Soul
March 16, 2015
Hi Gov!
Have you sat in a teachers’ work room recently? (Some schools still have one.) How about the 
teachers’ cafeteria? The rumors are flying east, west, north and south. Is it true that Pearson (among others) bought your soul? Your conscience? Your love of poor kids?
We now know who bought you your second term!
You certainly have been beating up on teachers since your re-election. Why? Teachers and their union solidly supported you. Of course, teachers can’t match the Pearson ton of gold, or 2 million from Hedge Funds, or one million from Glenwood. How many votes did you get from these one percenters?
Teachers, those sorry under-paid, over-worked slobs who you are chocking to death, were worth four or five hundred thousand votes all over New York State. A pity you don’t need their votes again.
You played – like all dirty politicians – the game very well. Here are some facts for you:
- The United States – the world super power – has one of the lowest standards of education in the world – thanks to ego-maniac politicians like you.
When you make teacher tenure/effectiveness contingent upon the number of passing students, you end up with grade-fixing. Principals and APs do not want their schools to “look bad” so they help their teachers to fix the grades. I know. Been there, done that! - The students are the forgotten people. Stop the money, kick the teachers
around, and who is really concerned about the welfare of the kids, their education, their future? Teachers are their best hope! - Hey Gov! Doesn’t it bother you that charter schools actively select the students they accept in their ivory towers? They must have a GPA of 80%?
What is the fate of the special needs kids? Immigrant kids? Minority Kids? - You kill public education Mr. Gov. and you kill America – land of opportunity. (To be continued.)
Your present attitude to teachers and your policies in education are shocking, but inconsequential to teachers because the people you are hurting are the children in our public schools – they are our future.
Your second term is showing your true colours. Happy to report I did not vote for you!
Christians Created Terrorists 1,000 Years Ago
January 19, 2015
Christians have been teaching the world “terrorism” for over a thousand years.
In the 11th and 12th Centuries the pious Christians of Europe with the pope’s blessings terrorized and slaughtered the Muslims of Jerusalem / Middle East. Christians covered the streets of Palestine with a lot of Muslim blood. Christians have been terrorizing Muslims for so long they have perfected the art of terrorism.
How about the French? Recall the reign or Terror? Isn’t that when terrorism was born? 
Isn’t that where the term “terrorist” came from? Those French Christians terrorized and slaughtered their own people and covered the streets of Paris with a lot of French Christian blood.
How soon we forget. Christians have short convenient memories. Whatever their motives, which is quite clear really, let’s not forget that in France the FLNC is a Christian terrorist group that is quite violent and very active. Recently in Greece and Italy Christian groups were responsible for acts of terror. 
In Norway a very pro-Christian man in an act of terror killed 77. Why do the media ignore these acts or terrorism?
World wide 98% of the terrorist acts are committed by Christian and other religious groups, and 2% (or less) by Muslim groups. Why are the Christian media in the US and European countries ignoring 98% of Christian terrorism and blasting the 2% by Muslims? To put the fear of Muslims in People?
Jesus, please hurry and return. The devout Christians practicing and spreading terrorism need you to teach them about peace and love.
Hurry Jesus!
